There's a few possible models here: Public donors ALA Patreon People doing it in their free time because they care a lot about the subject (nowadays with thin

There's a few possible models here: Public donors ALA Patreon People doing it in their free time because they care a lot about the subject (nowadays with things like Twitter its quite possible for an independent obsessive to write a good piece on, for instance, the Ukraine War by mostly referring to open sources and public announcements by governments and corporations) Government sponsorship ala BBC